Ticket-punch



(No Model.)

B. WO-ODMAN. TICKET PUNCH.

Paten'tqd Nov. 1888.

No. 392,298. I

' INVENTORP WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ROBERT \VOODMAN, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

TICKET-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,298, dated November6, 1888.

Application filed July 20, 1887. Serial No. 244,799. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern..-

Be it known that I, ROBERT WooDMAN, of Malden, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ticket-Punches, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to what are commonly known as ticket-punches, andparticularly to that class of such punches employing two jointedlever-arms, one carrying.

a, male and the other a female die, as the direct means of punching theticket when placed therefor between the jaws.

This invention consists in the securing of the male die of the punch toits lever, so that it can be readily removed for being repaired or forinsertion of another in its place, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is aperspective view of the improved ticket-punch. Fig. 2 is a 1ongitudinalsection in detail. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the clearing devicefor the male-die part of the punch detached; and Fig. 4 is a detailsection, as will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings, A and B represent thetwo leverarms of the implementcrossing and jointed together intermediately of their length, and thelever B at one end has a male die, 0, and the lever A, at one and thesame end as that of the lever B, has a-female die, D, the two diescooperating, when the opposite or handle ends, E and F, respectively, ofthe levers A B are forced toward each other, to punch the ticket placedbetween said male and female dies, all as well known and common inticket-punches.

The male die 0 consists, in substance, of a prong having the desired andproper shape at its cutting end a, and at its other end it is insertedin a suitably-shaped hole through the lever B, and this end of the leveris split lengthwise to its said hole, as at b, and after the die (1 isso inserted said split is bound together by a headed screw, (2, Fig. at,entered into and through them, and thus the male die is made fast.Unloosening the screw releases the male die for removal to be repairedor to have another substituted for it.

The lever B, carrying the male die, has a metal spring plate or arm, F,fixed at one end by its ear-pieces f with screws 9 to the oppo sitesides of the lever. Thisspring-arm F lies within the opening H betweenthe two levers 5 5 A B, into which opening the ticket is placed to bepunched, and has an opening, h, in it for the male punch O to playthrough it, and thence it curves upwardly and outwardly, as

at L, which curved portion, with the imple- 6 meut at rest, has ahearing, as at M, upon the outside of the lever B. This spring'plate Fin the operation of punching operates to clear and free the ticketpunched from the male part of the punch as such part leaves the female 6part. Again, in the separating movement of the two parts of the dieafter a punching operation, said plate F,by its end overlapping theouter end of the die-lever B,acts as a stop and limit to the openingmovement of the dies,

and, furthermore, it insures the detachment of the ticket from the maledie, because of the vibration imparted thereto in the opening movementof the dies and on the abutment of the outer portion of the lever-arm Bagainst its 7 end overlapping said outer portion.

Between the handle ends E F of the lovers is a spiral spring, N,confined at its opposite end portions upon a prong, O, of each of saidlevers. ing is compressed, and when the pressure on it is released byits reaction the punch-levers are returned to their normal position.Further than this, the spring applied as stated serves Thisspring in theoperation of punchthe purpose of a handle, as it were, by which die, 0,in combination with said die 0 and a 5 binding-screw, g, joining saidsplit 1), substantially as described, for the purpose specified. Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ROBERT WOODMAN.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BRowR. I

